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Michael Rothblatt Says:

Huh, one of the world’s premier Carlylese countries is going to bite the dust? It must be because they allowed too much capitalism! If only they had fetted markets some more, everything would’ve been fine and dandy. Yes, if Venezuela enslaves all of its subjects and organizes them into subsistence farming sovkhozes everything shall become A-OK.

>You do realize that Venezuela’s gov’t is modeled after ours, with its own checks and balances, executive, legislative and judicial wings, including its own supreme court?

And Roman Empire had a senate, and England has a queen. What’s your point? Mere existence of institutions doesn’t imply that they hold any power. We all know paper “constitutions” and actual constitutions as a rule don’t have anything to do with each other, because constitutionalism is a hokum. Gee man, that’s Reaction 101… except when it’s convinient to forget it I guess.

Chávez did whatever he wanted, and he did things Carlyle would’ve approved of. But to give credit where credit’s due, socialists believe in socialism because they believe it will bring prosperity, Carlyle would’ve approved of it exactly because it brings misery.

It is really suspicious that Carlyle has gone missing. I’m pretty sure that a lot of Land’s official XS TM stances are a result of his not wanting to be burned at the stake. Radish has some articles more in Moldbug’s vein than Land’s moldbugmirages. Why is it that the director opened up the trapdoor under Carlyle’s feet? (And with his Froude and Maine’s)? An honest genealogy of the Civil War and its consequences still needs to be undertaken. People are a little less kneejerk about that than WWII so it has promise. Hymns to the AI cause forgetfulness by placing consciousness in a promised future and distracting it from self-deception and deleterious cultural programming in the present.

Michael Rothblatt Reply:May 4th, 2017 at 7:26 pm

>Why is it that the director opened up the trapdoor under Carlyle’s feet?

As Moldbug said Carlyle is not for the swine. Reasonable people can salvage Carlyle. Unreasonable turn into advocates of Juche.

I thought that the War of the Norther Aggression has already been covered to death. As for the WWII, check out Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, and Norman Stone.

Admin, what do you think of the article’s take on The Federalist? I’m curious about the use of classically liberal American political philosophy in your recent work in general: Gnon, after all, is a riff on Jefferson’s “Nature and Nature’s God.”

“Venezuela has been ailing ever since the decline in oil prices that started in June 2014”

Get the prediction markets going, allow people to bet on credit and make participation mandatory for all analysts, opinion writers, etc. Within a decade we’d have the entire progressive establishment bonded into slavery.